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States Ramp Up For Biggest Vaccination Effort in US History

November 12, 2020

With a COVID-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the country are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history — a monumental undertaking that must distribute hundreds of millions of doses, prioritize who’s first in line and ensure that people who get the initial shot return for the necessary second one.

‘World’s Loneliest Elephant’ Arrives Safely in Cambodia

November 30, 2020

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The pachyderm dubbed the ” world’s loneliest elephant ” after languishing alone for years in a Pakistani zoo was greeted on his arrival in Cambodia on Monday by chanting Buddhist monks and was then sent on his way to a wildlife sanctuary.

Volkswagen Triples Electric Car Sales Ahead of Climate Rules

January 12, 2021

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s push into electric cars is gathering speed — despite the pandemic.

"our children deserve better safe choice now"

In CDC’s Backyard, School Reopening Debate Divides Experts

January 27, 2021

Just down the road from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a community flush with resident health professionals, the Decatur, Georgia, school system had no shortage of expert input on whether to resume in-person classes amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Amanda Gorman delivers a poem after Joe Biden was sworn in

Amanda Gorman, in a First, Brings Poetry to Super Bowl

February 8, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who stirred America at the inauguration of President Joe Biden last month, again commanded the spotlight on one of the country’s biggest stages, the Super Bowl.

Mr. Potato Head Drops the Mister, Sort of

February 26, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Is it Mr. Potato Head or not?

pink flags and spray-painted white circles

At Clemson, Unmarked Slave Graves Highlight Plantation Past

April 7, 2021

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — On the sloping side of a cemetery on the campus of Clemson University, dozens of small white flags with pink ribbons have replaced the beer cans that once littered a hill where football fans held tailgate parties outside Memorial Stadium.

Illinois Researchers Working to Save Ornate Box Turtles

May 10, 2021

FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. (AP) — A team of Illinois researchers is using dogs to track down a threatened species of turtle.

substitute teacher at Bailey Middle School

Raise Your Hand: Schools Seek Volunteers in Staffing Crunch

February 2, 2022

With teacher absences mounting and substitutes in short supply, parents may be wondering: Who’s teaching the kids?

Marijuana’s Effects on the Brain Need More Research

February 10, 2022

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) — President Joe Biden declared Thursday that a $1 billion infusion from the bipartisan infrastructure deal would restore the Great Lakes harbors and tributary rivers that have been polluted by industrial toxins.

A sign posted by opponents to a wastewater treatment plant

Tennessee Community Fights to Save Their ‘Exceptional’ Creek

March 16, 2022

PRIMM SPRINGS, Tenn. (AP) — Greg Deen and his family have farmed along Lick Creek in Middle Tennessee since shortly after the Civil War. The children of Vange Johnson’s large extended family were baptized in the creek. Bea and Neil Jobe, now in their 80s, no longer grow tobacco irrigated with creek water but still get their drinking water from a nearby well.

FILE - State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, discusses his proposed measure to provide legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., March 17, 2022. Democratic lawmakers in more than a dozen states are following California’s lead in seeking to offer legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families. The coordinated effort being announced Tuesday, May 3, by the LGBTQ Victory Institute and other advocates comes in response to recent actions taken in conservative states. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Lawmakers in 19 States Want Legal Refuge for Trans Youth

May 3, 2022

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in more than a dozen states are following California’s lead in seeking to offer legal refuge to displaced transgender youth and their families.

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, one of the curators of the new Kapaemahu exhibit at Bishop Museum

Hawaii Museum Revisits History of Gender-Fluid Healers

July 8, 2022

HONOLULU (AP) — More than 500 years ago, Hawaiians placed four boulders on a Waikiki beach to honor visitors from the court of Tahiti’s king who had healed the sick. They were “mahu,” which in Hawaiian language and culture refers to someone with dual male and female spirit and a mixture of gender traits.

Remembering the Slave Who Joined Jefferson in Philadelphia

July 1, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — In the early summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson worked away in the second floor parlor of a boardinghouse in downtown Philadelphia. Wielding language he would call “plain and firm,” he set down the words that still inspire those seeking justice and liberation, “All men are created equal.”

a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

More Than 200 Schools Back Lawsuit Over Foreign Student Rule

July 13, 2020

BOSTON (AP) — More than 200 universities are backing a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s new restrictions on international students, arguing that the policy jeopardizes students’ safety and forces schools to reconsider fall plans they have spent months preparing.

White House Drops Payroll Tax Cut After GOP Allies Object

July 23, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday reluctantly dropped his bid to cut Social Security payroll taxes as Republicans stumbled anew in efforts to unite around a $1 trillion COVID-19 rescue package to begin negotiations with Democrats who are seeking far more.

On Pine Ridge, Preserving Language Means Protecting Elders

August 5, 2020

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As the pandemic affects the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, one local community organization is doing everything it can to help people stay at home, fearing that the pandemic could take a disproportionate toll on an elderly population that maintains the language and culture of the tribe.

Fear, Language Barriers Hinder Immigrant Contact-Tracing

August 15, 2020

Only a handful of contact tracers working to slow COVID-19 in 125 communities near Chicago speak Spanish, despite significant Hispanic populations. Churches and advocacy groups in the Houston area are trying to convince immigrants to cooperate when health officials call. And in California, immigrants are being trained as contact tracers to ease mistrust.

Fad or Future? Telehealth Expansion Eyed Beyond Pandemic

August 30, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Telehealth is a bit of American ingenuity that seems to have paid off in the coronavirus pandemic. Medicare temporarily waived restrictions predating the smartphone era and now there’s a push to make telemedicine widely available in the future.

US Layoffs Remain Elevated as Job Market’s Gains Weaken

September 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week at 884,000, a sign that layoffs remain stuck at a historically high level six months after the viral pandemic flattened the economy.

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